Berlin in the 1920s – ‘The Sex Capital of Europe’

“Things looked much the same in 1920s Berlin as they do today.” (Tagesspiegel/ theLocal.de )

Berlin gay museum archivist Jens Dobler notes that Berlin was so tolerant during the Weimar Republic era that 30 different newspapers were printed for the city’s huge queer population (which was so big, Italians used to call gay people ‘Berlinese’).